Ridgewood planner sees broad benefits to downtown housing
NOVEMBER 6, 2014 LAST UPDATED: THURSDAY, NOVEMBER 6, 2014, 3:02 PM
BY LAURA HERZOG
STAFF WRITER |
THE RIDGEWOOD NEWS
The issue is not whether new housing should be allowed in Ridgewood at all, emphasized Village Planner Blais Brancheau on Monday.
In his long-awaited testimony on Monday night, the near-end of an almost year-long hearing process, the village planner endorsed the many “broad public benefits” of a master plan amendment that would allow high-density housing in the downtown.
And he noted that “the issue should not be whether multifamily housing should be permitted at all, but to what extent and with what standards.”
Speaking at length to a crowd of about 50 people, including proponents and critics of the three high-density housing developments that have been proposed in and around Ridgewood’s Central Business District (CBD), Brancheau came to this conclusion in part by citing the state redevelopment plan, an NJ Transit document and the non-profit organization Sustainable Jersey.
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